He said that of convictions involving child sexual exploitation, 87% were of British Pakistani men and it was a significant problem for that community. [20], Four of the convicted, Shabir Ahmed, Adil Khan, Abdul Rauf and Abdul Aziz, who had dual British and Pakistani citizenships, were denaturalized (stripped of their British citizenship) by then Home Secretary Theresa May in order for them to be deported to Pakistan. And then, in July 2009, an experienced CPS lawyer ruled the victim was not credible and decided that the two men who raped her should be released without charge. You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. "At first I thought it was great because nothing sexual had happened, I thought I could just get all of this stuff for free.". There was a string of different inquiries into what went wrong. "I got picked up so many times by the police and it was always when I was out with adult men," she says. The victims, many of whom were from difficult backgrounds and therefore particularly vulnerable, were plied with drugs, alcohol and fast food, and then taken to chill houses across the north of England to be abused. Speaking at the conclusion of a 10-week trial at Liverpool Crown Court, the woman, who cannot be identified, said she was forced to have sex with up to five different men in a day, at least four times a week. May stated the revocations were "conducive to the public good". In some cases those girls were raped, callously, viciously and violently. When police were called to a report of a 15-year-old girl smashing up the Balti House takeaway in Heywood, they had no idea that the crime they had. A senior police officer has joined calls for a review on criminal records of child exploitation victims. The serious case review looked at six girls who suffered sexual exploitation in Heywood, Rochdale between 2007 and 2010. I'm only a kid - why is it always me? "Why have I still got a criminal record? Three Girls: Maggie Oliver says known paedophiles are still abusing girls in Rochdale and authorities are 'more interested in covering up mistakes', according to one officer who was involved. But the investigation, according to one officer who was involved, was a car crash. Assistant Chief Constable Steve Heywood said that about 550 officers were working on Operation Doublet in May 2013. 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At the time, she was living with an older victim but when she became pregnant by one of the men, she moved back in with her parents. THE SICK leader of the Rochdale child sex abuse ring is serving a 22-year prison sentence for his role in the gang. Stephen Watson says force had lacked professional curiosity when it came to young victims of grooming gangs 19 Apr 2022 Rochdale victim: 'I was groomed at 14, then the courts came for my. She said that seven officers had been served with misconduct notices, but no further disciplinary action would be taken against them. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Harriet Wistrich, director of the Centre for Women's Justice, is supporting Daisy in a civil action against Greater Manchester Police and the Crown Prosecution Service. Nazir Afzal, chief prosecutor in the North West - who overturned the original CPS decision not to prosecute over allegations of abuse in 2009 - said: "I absolutely accept that things didn't go well for us and other agencies. And Ive done nothing wrong I was a victim of these men at the age of 14. One of their victims tells her story. Video, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Harry and Meghan told to 'vacate' Frogmore Cottage, Fungus case forces Jack Daniels to halt construction, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart, Ed Sheeran says wife developed tumour in pregnancy, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine, Dozens of girls treated after new Iran poisonings, Havana Syndrome unlikely to have hostile cause - US, Man survives 31 days in jungle by eating worms. A. . "It's not an excuse that's the reality of where we are. "[32], The former head of Barnardo's, Martin Narey, said on BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "For this particular type of crime, the street grooming of teenage girls in northern towns there is very troubling evidence that Asians are overwhelmingly represented in the prosecutions for such offences. Nothing happened. This reluctance was because shed been in this position before. Career Track: Leadership. She specifically spoke of her abuse at the hands of two members of the gang who would later be jailed four years. Last Tuesday Amber, with two other victims of the Rochdale grooming gang, finally received an apology delivered personally by Stephen Watson, the chief constable of Greater Manchester police (GMP). History was repeating itself, said Maggie. I gave hours of interviews, reliving all the abuse. There was a "shocking" inability to protect seven vulnerable girls from sexual exploitation, a report into the Rochdale grooming case has said. There was a "shocking" inability to protect seven vulnerable girls from sexual exploitation, a report into the Rochdale grooming case has said. Following a trial at Liverpool Crown Court, nine men were convicted in May 2012. Writing in The Guardian, Cockbain and Tufail wrote of the report that "The two-year study by the Home Office makes very clear that there are no grounds for asserting that Muslim or Pakistani-heritage men are disproportionately engaged in such crimes, and, citing our research, it confirmed the unreliability of the Quilliam claim". A June 2008 report identified 50 children in the town at risk of sexual exploitation. A new investigation, dubbed Operation Span, was launched. She had a knack of speaking on a human level to estate kids and she was head-hunted by her bosses to persuade them to give evidence in the trial despite the woeful original investigation. 2023 BBC. It's now 10 years since the start of the police investigation that led to the Rochdale grooming trial. Finally, she has been exonerated. Something went wrong, please try again later. She still has a scar on her arm and as far as we know, the man who abused her was never investigated. He shouted in court, "Where are the white people? Video, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Harry and Meghan told to 'vacate' Frogmore Cottage, Fungus case forces Jack Daniels to halt construction, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart, Ed Sheeran says wife developed tumour in pregnancy, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine, Dozens of girls treated after new Iran poisonings, Havana Syndrome unlikely to have hostile cause - US, Man survives 31 days in jungle by eating worms. The abuse of minor female children that occurred in 2008 and 2009 centred around two takeaways in Heywood near Rochdale. The exposure of the grooming, sexual assault and trafficking of young girls in Rochdale was made public in 2012. The grooming case seemed ripe for exploitation: all the girls were white, all the accused were Asian Muslim men, and they had displayed a searing contempt for their victims. There was a "shocking" inability to protect seven vulnerable girls from sexual exploitation, a report into the Rochdale grooming case has said. "[30], Tim Loughton, the Minister for Children and Families, said that while there was no evidence that ethnic communities condoned child sexual abuse, he was concerned that some had been slow to report it to the police, and urged police and social workers not to allow "political correctness around ethnicity" to hinder their work to apprehend such criminals. Although police interviewed a total of 56 men on suspicion of abuse, only a handful were tried. The arrests are in relation to one of the five girls who gave evidence at Liverpool Crown Court in the case of a child sex grooming ring in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. "[54], One of the seven officers retired without any sanctions being taken, even though his misconduct was found to have warranted disciplinary action. While GMP has finally settled the claim, which includes the personal apology from the chief constable, the DPP has so far resisted. Kabeer Hassan was sentenced to nine years for rape and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children. It drew statistics from organisations such as Barnardo's but the findings were considered inconclusive by expert academics because not all the figures had been compiled in the same way and ethnicity had not always been noted with each reported crime. [22] Operation Doublet was launched at the same time as an investigation into child grooming and sexual abuse in the region. [5] The girls were mainly White British. The government would not comment on the Rochdale case but said it had deported more than 51,000 foreign national offenders since 2010. But in court, she was portrayed by the prosecution and defence as an assistant pimp. Five of the girls had "clearly" needed help and intervention by safeguarding agencies before the abuse began, the report said. Must demonstrate independence and competence in the duties on a variety of procedures. [1] One 13-year-old victim recounted that, after being forced to have sex in exchange for vodka, her abuser immediately raped her again and gave her 40 to not say anything about the incident. Read about our approach to external linking. Man United beat West Ham United 3-1 in the fifth round of the FA Cup at Old Trafford on Wednesday evening. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. By entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. A serious case review by the Rochdale Safeguarding Children Board highlighted failures by 17 agencies who were meant to protect the children. Following the case in Rochdale similar cases of grooming and sexual abuse/exploitation of young girls came to light in various towns and cities across the UK. [17] Abdul Aziz, a married father of three, took over from Shabir Ahmed as the main trafficker and was paid by various men to supply underage girls for sex. But because of an obligation to disclose criminal convictions, she has been prevented from pursuing her chosen career. Their treatment encompasses a range of catastrophic errors in one of the countrys most harrowing child sexual abuse scandals. had learned about the investigation but after approaching GMP we were told to hold off until the victims had been spoken to. Finally, officers did not challenge a Crown Prosecution Service decision not to prosecute. One father called Children's Social Care (CSC) up to 50 times, reporting his daughter's "uncontrollable drinking, running away and difficult behaviour". Not just once - but repeatedly - by a gang of men who would ply her with vodka and threaten her with violence unless she succumbed to horrific abuse. The men, she said, were friendly at first, simply chatting with the girls now and again in a takeaway shop. Calls to deport 'appalling' grooming trio, Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. It was not until summer 2011 that Nazir Afzal, the new regional head of the CPS, reversed the decision not to prosecute. "Lessons must be learnt from this report and measures implemented to ensure no other vulnerable children are treated as at fault. The three-part series tells the story of the victims of an infamous child grooming and sex trafficking scandal in Rochdale, and continues on Wednesday night. [13], As a result of the CPS dropping the case, the police halted their investigation, which was resumed when a second girl made complaints of a similar nature in December 2009. Despite one victim going to the police in 2008 to report the child grooming, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decided not to prosecute two men, invoking the witness's lack of credibility. A Serious Case Review published in 2013 concluded that the authorities 'struggled to empathise' with the girls, partly because they were from poor backgrounds, giving them a 'skewed picture of their behaviour'. In relation to historical failures, he apologised to Daisy. Also cited were a lack of managerial oversight in 2008 and 2009 and lack of resources and managerial support for the investigations despite formal requests. BBC Ones new drama Three Girls launched on Tuesday to five million viewers. They werent bothered when youre from a shit home. The organisation defined underage grooming as any situation where a child or young person received a gift in exchange for sexual favours. [8], Some gang members told the court the girls were willing participants and happy having sex with the men. The period during the buildup to the trial of the men accused of being part of the grooming gang, was dark for Amber. [1] The abusers paid small sums of money for the encounters. The dramatisation tells the story of three children who were victims in the scandal and stars Maxine Peake as sexual health worker Sara, who recorded and reported cases of child abuse for years. Maggie spent six months speaking to the victims from Rochdale and persuaded them to give evidence. The inspector concluded the abuse could have stopped if the authorities had stepped in sooner. [6] Sara Rowbotham, the sexual health worker who first recognised patterns of child abuse in the community and fought to bring these crimes to police attention, was made redundant in 2014. This eventually led to the successful prosecution of nine men for offences included rape, trafficking girls for sex and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child. Shabir Ahmed, who abused dozens of vulnerable teenagers, was known as "Dadd "[2][11] Shabir Ahmed's threatening behaviour and calling Judge Gerald Clifton a "racist bastard" resulted in him being banned from the court for the sentencing hearing. The alleged offences that took place in Rochdale between 2005 and 2013 included rape, conspiracy to rape, inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, sexual activity with a child, and sexual assault. [32], Hilary Willmer, representing a Leeds-based support group for parents of sexually exploited girls, the Coalition for the Removal of Pimping (Crop), was quoted as saying "The vast majority [of] perpetrators are Pakistani Asians",[35] with sources inside Crop claiming a percentage as high as 80 per cent although, The Independent said that "Kurdish, Romanian and Albanian gangs were also involved". '", 'We should have listened to he broken teenagers'. After the court case, social services started to pursue Amber, with the aim of having her children removed. Social workers told him she was "a child prostitute", and he accepted this "because he did not know that it was wrong", the review said. 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The abuse continued for months, until one evening she was arrested by police for smashing the counter at a takeaway where some of the men met the girls. Operation Span was the investigation launched in December 2009 into allegations made against the individuals who were convicted in 2012, and others. The company's owner said that due to requests, clients could choose to have a white driver but this was reversed after 50 Asian drivers protested. It took police 11 months to compile a file of evidence for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) after interviewing the young victim from the takeaway on four separate occasions. Child sexual exploitation has been uncovered in towns, cities and counties all over the country and it affects both girls and boys from all backgrounds. The mayor's office. "I felt let down," she said. Willmer added: "We think this is the tip of the iceberg", although she cautioned against treating the matter as a race crime: "It's a criminal thing. Adil Khan was sentenced to eight years for the same offences. One victim, a 15-year-old known as the Honey Monster, acted as a recruiter, procuring girls as young as 13 for the gang. They had to be assured that, as victims of sex crimes, they would be guaranteed anonymity for life. Maggie Oliver was again left fuming when one of the girls she had talked round - a victim of abuse - was placed in the indictment that went before the jury. Department: 7014 LCMT CASE MGMT. [21], Following the break up of the first sex ring in May 2012, the police made arrests in relation to another child sexual exploitation ring in Rochdale. At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. "The report paints a shocking picture of the inability of these agencies to protect these young people successfully," said Jane Booth, chair of the safeguarding board. Rochdale grooming gang members could be deported to Pakistan; . Oliver had been headhunted to join the grooming gangs case as detective and victim liaison officer in 2010 because of her experience working with vulnerable victims. Handout pictures released by Greater Manchester police in 2012 show eight of nine men convicted in connection with the child sexual exploitation ring. "The biggest issue to come out of this report is that Greater Manchester Police (GMP) were effectively discriminating against poor, white, working-class girls, so that's not about a failure to spot abuse, that is about actively ignoring abuse that was going on when it was brought to their attention," he said. One example mentioned was the issue of child protection for one of the victims, which was discussed in 40 meetings, without any record of police attendance. On 9 May 2012, the Rochdale grooming trial reached its conclusion. It meant she was regarded by the prosecution as a member of the grooming gang whose members would go in the dock, even though she was not charged and would not stand beside them in court. The BBC drama Three Girls was based on the Rochdale child sexual abuse scandal. "[36] Narey rejected the idea that such gangs were specifically targeting white girls, but suggested vulnerable girls on the street were more likely to be white since Asian girls were subjected to strict parenting and were more likely to be kept off the streets. Stephen Watson, chief constable of Greater Manchester police, made a personal apology to three of the Rochdale victims. Now they werent prepared to do that. Two members of the grooming gang the gangs ringleader Shabir Ahmed and Kabeer Hassan were arrested and released on bail. Officers on the Rochdale division were under pressure at the time to hit volume crime targets like bringing down the number of burglaries and were overwhelmed by the sheer scale of the grooming problem they had uncovered. The abuse took place in Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, in the early 2000s. Some of the men involved were arrested, tried and found guilty. Torrance, CA. Actress Maxine Peake starred in the series as Sara Rowbotham, the sexual health aid worker who first uncovered the patterns of severe abuse in the area, but struggled to bring it to the attention of authorities. Posted: February 21, 2023. Man United beat West Ham in the fifth round of the FA Cup on Wednesday and we'll bring you live reaction from the match. When a local teenager was caught smashing up a glass chiller at the Balti House takeaway in Heywood in August 2008, police dismissed it as a simple act of vandalism. She was vilified and nicknamed in the press as the Honey Monster. 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[44], One study suggested that the British media's portrayal of South Asian men as perpetrators of sexual violence against white victims is an example of a moral panic. The investigation into the sexual abuse of the girl had been reopened following the exposure of police failings. She walked out, refusing to go along with this decision, and was forbidden from speaking to Amber. Nine men have been convicted of sexually exploiting young girls in Greater Manchester. I think it was because they were afraid of being called racist. However, Sir Peter said the report failed to confront a "fundamental" problem faced by police officers, who are repeatedly asked to track down and return young people missing from children's homes, only for them to run away again. Police began to investigate child grooming in Rochdale almost by accident. Without Ambers initial evidence there might never have been a trial at all. Another five-year sentence was given to Abdul Qayyum for conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children, while Hamid Safi received four years for trafficking for sexual exploitation and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children. Sign up and we will email you daily with the best of our political and news coverage while also giving you a taste of our most-popular lifestyle, opinion and personal blogs. There was a complete lack of understanding of the world in which they existed. "This is something I feel very strongly about," she says. I agreed to help the police to stop it happening to others, Amber wrote to Oliver in the midst of her campaign for justice. A ringleader of a grooming gang has avoided being deported so it would therefore be wrong to deport two other gang members, a tribunal has heard. The convictions she received as a teen continue to hold her back to this day. There was a complete lack of appreciation of the world in which some of the girls lived - when in fact that should have framed every conversation . Cryer said, "Neither the police nor social services would touch those cases. [35] "The citations are correct but they have been taken out of context," Cockbain told The Independent; "Nor do they acknowledge the small sample size of the original research, which focused on just two large cases." As a result of police failures to respond to evidence, the men who had groomed the three children were able to continue . [7] A former Detective Constable who was investigating the grooming gangs, Margaret Oliver, resigned in 2012 in disgust of the handling of the cases by the police force and spoke out as a whistleblower to inform the public. Jailing them, Judge Gerald Clifton said: You have all been convicted by the jury after a long trial of grave sexual offences which were committed between the spring of 2008 and 2010. 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